Re: Error when LWP, WxPerl and version.pm are used together

From: "John Peacock" <[email protected]>
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>> - instead of "use version;" I use "use version();".
> 
> The sole difference between those two call is the former implicitly 
> calls the version::import.  And there are only two methods exported by 
> default: qv() and UNIVERSAL::VERSION.  As you can guess by the name, the 
> latter is exported into the UNIVERSAL namespace (and is required to add 
> a version-aware fallback comparison method).


I've seen that if I redefine UNIVERSAL::VERSION, the program also works fine:

sub UNIVERSAL::VERSION {}


> You are reporting two problems, but only giving details for one.  I'm 
> guessing that you are saying that if you add REST::Google::Translate, 
> its own 'use version' is what is causing _your_ script to fail.  If I am 
> not understanding you, please clarify.


Yes, the problem appears because REST::Google::Translate and its parent REST::Google use "use version".


> It would help me a lot if you could uninstall the newer version.pm and see if you still get an 
> error in your test script with "use version;" included (since that is 
> essentially a no-op with Perl 5.10.x and above).


I made those tests after installing the latest version of version.pm from CPAN.

The program works fine without any other changes if either I add "use IO::Socket" as Mark Dootson suggested, or if I redefine UNIVERSAL::VERSION.

It is strange why that error doesn't appear when I use the English locale with Wx::Locale but it appears if I use the Romanian locale code.

Thanks.

Octavian